Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling is still finalizing his Wednesday dinner plans.

He hasn’t thought about it much yet. There’s still much to do, but there will be reason to celebrate. He won’t join in a Champagne toast — Snelling doesn’t drink alcohol — but he may allow himself one indulgence: a banana milkshake, his ...Read more

CHICAGO — Before she went into surgery, Elizabeth Wehrle knew that doctors wanted to transplant four new organs into her body.

She didn’t know, at the time, that the operation at Northwestern Memorial Hospital was potentially the first of its kind in the country — a quadruple-organ transplant performed on a person who had already had a ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana is taking aim at California’s Medicaid program for providing housing assistance, food, and other social services to high-need, low-income patients who tend to rack up big healthcare costs and, he argued, strain taxpayer funds.

The Republican blasted California during back-to-back political...Read more

Fresno immigrant activists said that ICE being ordered to temporarily suspend vehicle stops after two deadly shootings by its agents in Texas and Maine provides a “small breath” of relief. But it’s no reason to stop being vigilant of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the Valley, they say.

Alfred Aldrete of Fresno ...Read more

On the second day of a civil jury trial in Tallahassee in which state Rep. Fabián Basabe is facing allegations of sexual harassment by a former legislative aide and an intern, the Miami Beach Republican on Tuesday denied the allegations and testified that the ex-aide “was always a loser.”

The former aide, Nicolas Frevola, has claimed that ...Read more

People who were wrongfully imprisoned in Illinois could see larger payouts after Gov. JB Pritzker announced Tuesday he had signed a law raising the compensation cap.

Illinois has had the most exonerations of any state for six of the past seven years, according to the National Registry of Exonerations. But until now, compensation for exonerees ...Read more

A federal judge in Miami has awarded more than $314 million in damages to three American citizens who said they were imprisoned and brutally tortured by the Venezuelan regime headed by Nicolás Maduro before they were freed in a 2023 prisoner exchange that secured the release of Maduro ally Alex Saab from U.S custody.

U.S. District Judge Darrin...Read more

Gov. Bob Ferguson kicked off a campaign to preserve the state's new high-earners income tax on Tuesday, arguing an initiative to kill the tax would have disastrous consequences for schools, small businesses and families.

Ferguson joined other foes of Initiative 645, including Democratic allies and education advocates and union activists, ...Read more

Northwest tribal nations and conservation groups sued the Trump administration Tuesday, challenging a new rule that aims to eliminate habitat protections for imperiled species.

For more than 50 years, degradation or destruction of habitat that impairs, kills or injures threatened species has been prohibited or regulated by the Endangered ...Read more

President Donald Trump backed away from his plan to impose a 20% charge on cargo shipments through the Strait of Hormuz after U.S. allies in the Gulf urged him to drop it.

Trump announced the decision on Tuesday, just one day after rolling out the fee, saying that the expected revenue would be replaced by forthcoming direct investments in the U...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom just announced a $20 million boost to the California Civic Media Program, which is designed to fund the state’s local news ecosystem. Individual newsrooms are eligible for up to $250,000 and applications for the grant are open until noon on Aug. 21.

“Every Californian deserves access to accurate, trusted information. By ...Read more

An intestinal parasite that causes “explosive” diarrhea is sickening people across 34 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.

Despite outbreaks affecting two states bordering Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia region so far shows no signs of widespread illness from Cyclospora cayetanensis.

Speaking to reporters, ...Read more

Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett pitched increased security funding for the Supreme Court next year at a pair of rare congressional hearings for sitting justices Tuesday that covered issues ranging from emergency cases to judicial ethics.

Kagan and Barrett focused most of their testimony on increased security concerns at the court ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Metropolitan Police Department body-camera video shows a police sergeant stopping Gov. Joe Lombardo for a suspected red light violation in May in Las Vegas, then letting him go without issuing a citation.

The video shows Lombardo, the former Clark County sheriff, in a Ford pickup truck being stopped near Mandalay Bay on May 15 ...Read more

City Council Speaker Julie Menin announced her support late Tuesday for a bill that would end the New York City carriage horse industry — with the Council set to hold a hearing on the legislative effort Wednesday morning.

The legislative effort — nicknamed Romanch’s Law, after the teenager killed by a bolting horse last month — would ...Read more

As the long-shot motion for a new trial remains pending, imprisoned Chicago R&B superstar R. Kelly has formally asked President Donald Trump to commute his 30-year sentence for an array of sexual misconduct convictions.

The request for clemency was made public this week by the Office of the Pardon Attorney, the Department of Justice agency that...Read more

PHILADELPHIA – Gov. Josh Shapiro on Tuesday visited Vare-Washington Elementary School in South Philadelphia to tout the $678 million in new education funding included in the state budget deal finalized over the weekend.

The new education funding — including $565 million in “adequacy funding” to aid poorer districts — represented one ...Read more

The Department of Homeland Security has ordered immigration agents to temporarily halt most vehicle stops during deportation operations, according to a department official, after a fatal shooting of a man in Maine reignited concerns about the agency’s tactics.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will suspend vehicle stops except ...Read more